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County in California, United States
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Merced County is in the San Joaquin Valley region of California.
The primary north-south route through the county is California State Route 99, which traverses the eastern side of the Central Valley from just north of the Grapevine up to Sacramento before ending in the northern part…
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Atwater is a city in Merced County, California.
Gustine is a small town in Merced County in the San Joaquin Valley region of California.
Hilmar is a small town in the San Joaquin Valley of California. It boasts the world's largest single site cheese plant.
Los Banos, also called by the Spanish name Los Baños, is a city in Merced County in California's San Joaquin Valley.
Merced is a city of 86,000 people (2020) in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Located along State Route 99 which runs between the agricultural cities of the eastern San Joaquin Valley, Merced is also a gateway to Yosemite via State Route 140.
Santa Nella is a town of about 2,000 people in Merced County in California's San Joaquin Valley. It's best known as a major rest stop on Interstate 5 and as the home of the iconic Danish-American diner Pea Soup Andersen's.
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